Guild Wars 2

Most of my guildmates are interested in PvP and I am as well but I recently started doing the dungeons and really like them. I have gotten through all the story modes as of last night and now would like to start completing the explorer modes.

Only problem with this is that my guildies just want to do WvW so I am left standing around in map chat trying to come up with creative ways to look for groups so the spam filter doesn’t block my messages. Sometimes it can take up to two hours to put together a single run. This is not fun.

I am hoping, with this post, that I can find 4 dedicated pve’ers on here who want to hit all the dungeons on explorer mode, regardless of how difficult they may or may not be. I am on Eradon Terrace and am online every night from around 7pm to 11pm CST. If you are available to fill a spot in this group then post in here or let me know in game. If you already have 4 people and just need a 5th I’m game for that as well.

I am really enjoying the dungeons and am hoping to find 4 like minded people to work through these with. This group would be a group that runs together on these explorer modes as often as possible, preferably every evening if we can all manage it.

PS. I am against leaving my guild as they are real life freinds who I have been gaming with for over ten years, however I am not against being in 2 guilds at the same time, if that is the only alternative to getting this content completed.

Meow Mix is my name in game. I can be reached there anytime after 7pm cst.

Big packs of normal’s are easy, big packs of normals with one or two silvers is easy – it’s just when there are more than 2 silver frames were everything seems to go south. Can anyone offer methods for how to deal with 3 or 4 of them?

Is aoe weakness’ and aoe blinds the only way to do it?

PS. we know to check the specials below thier health bar prior to entering combat for what they do. Obviouslty kill the healers and buffer’s first ect…

Our dungeon group consists of:

80 thief
80 guardian
80 warrior
80 ranger (me)
80 elementalist or another warrior or another necromancer (depends on who wants to run and who is online)

For the other people in the group I have no idea how they are traited but i do know that when we entered CM last night we all compared toughness and we were all about the same “within +/- 50”.

My dungeon spec is traited for 10 marksmanship (power) / 20 wilderness survival (Toughness) / 10 nature magic (Vitality) / 30 Beast mastery (Healing). For group buffs I bring my ground target group heal, group heal spirit, group protection spirit, bear that can tie up at least 1 silver frame indefinately and csteady never ending dps <- although not very high.

The only time I die is when everyone else is dead and the mobs come after me. The only time everyone dies is if there are more than 2 silver’s. 3 or more and people start dying every time. we really had no problems untill we hit the two rooms before frost and then thats when the slaughter fest began. Those two packs of mobs tied us up for about 15 wipes before we finally said kitten it and came up with the idea of group running/ stealthing past them. That idea sucked cause we were constantly aggroing crap behind us and to the side that caused another 5 or so wipes. After we finally managed to get to the last room and found the whole scenario repeated half the group almost went into a nerd rage.

After wiping three more times on the two elites and gaggle of normals we finally realised there was a pack of 3 roamers entering the area as well as two silver gunners up in the rafters. Another 3 or 4 wipes before we found how to kill the gunners (ranger longbow method) without aggroing the mobs below which made the big pull pretty easy.

At frost I think we only died once figuring out how to dodge that stupid ice flame thrower by jumping in the water. He was a joke compared to the trash mobs preceding him. Just lots of jumping in and out of the water for whomever had aggro on him.

Im venting, I feel better now.

Got a couple complaints about this place.

Complaint # 1 – Right before you fight Frost
In the first room there are two HUGE groups. Group one has like 3 or 4 Silvers and about 5 normal’s. Second group has the same. both groups are pulled seperatly… if you want to die repeatedly and never get past it right? We ended up finally having to use a group run speed buff and all of us sprint past the groups to the stairwell on the right and go halfway up the ramp, then use a group stealth to drop combat and make the horde go away. Then you have to drop down to the platform below and fight like 3 ranged silvers, then two more ranged silvers before you get to the second room.

At the second room use a ranger with a longbow and traited for extra distance to shoot the two silver rifleman on the top of platforms, making sure to stay in your bow range and out of thier gun range so you dont aggro the horde of normals and two elites below them. After the two rifleman are down go in and AOE the crap out of the normals then focus the 2 elites… hope you dont pick up the roamer’s… or it’s repeat of all the above after yopu wipe.

Now my actual complaint… Why are the trash mobs a hundred times more difficult than the bosses? In this explorer dungeon we probably wiped about 30 times on trash and only twice on the last boss. You have way too many mobs in this place. It needs to be toned down. This dungeon was, to the point, not fun at all. It is not simply challenging but just stupid.

Complaint # 2 – Boss fights? What bosses are those the pushovers with the purple or gold frames?
Here’s the strat to beat about 80% of them = Shoot – Shoot – Shoot – OMG the boss is looking at me = dodge/evade – shoot – shoot – shoot – dodge/evade cause hes looking at me again – Drop group heal – move out of the stuff on the ground[rinse/repeat]

The trash is way more of a challenge if a challenge for you is smashing your face into a brick wall.

Complaint # 3 – Downscaling for higher levels
I am level 80 and running this. My loots from the whole dungeon consist’s of about 2 rows of blues that I salvaged for TP auctions that got me about 6 silver total. made no more than 3 or 4 silver from mob drops and trophies sells. Paid about 5 silver to portal to the map from ore then another 5 silver to go back to ore after it was done, then about 20 silver in armour repairs. Thats me losing 20 silver to run this dungeon. Additionally get to the final boss (Frost) and clean his clock and no chest spawns nor any loot other than a white level 43 gun that is lootable off him directly? Is this normal? So i pretty much have to grind event’s in ore for an hour to run a dungeon, just so i dont run out of money?

Overall this is our second explorer mode dungeon as a guild and after we got done in this place last night we had 2 people saying that they are through with pve in gw2, one making fun of the two who said they were done with pve, and 2 others who agreed this might be the worst dungeon they have ever run in any mmo second only to stratholme in original wow.

Every day I spend and hour or so farming the spider event in the middle of the map at Ruins of Ore for crafting mat’s to sell for money on the TP. Every day I see the same botter’s spamming thier aoe and limiting my loot intake. Every day I use the report feature on them.

Additionally, Every day when I log in my inbox has at least 2 or 3 messages from gold sellers. And lastly every time I visit rata sum the map chat is filled with gold seller spam. I use the report feature every time i get spam mail or every time i see them spamming in map chat and still they continue.

Last week I purchased some gems from the trading post and then sold those gems for gold on the trading post. The black lion trading post prices were outrageous compared to what these gold sellers are offering thier wares for. Can I buy gold from them instead, its nearly half the price of the trading post? It just seems that nothing is being done about it as i see the same botters and spammers every day so can i use thier services and not get in trouble?

I dont want my account banned or anything, so thats why I am asking. I would like a reply from someone at anet so I will know FOR SURE yes or no.

dont you ever watch the punkin chunkers on tv. Those treb’s fire longer range than some modern sniper rifles do…

WHAT? are you all pullin my leg? What extra stuff can you buy ?

Purina comes from when I was a kid and was poor and my mother was off galavanting across the town for days on end my sister would feed my purina puppy chow dried dog food.

It was that or starve so I ate it willingly and actually grew to prefer it over the welfare cereal. A couple MMO’s ago i told that story and someone started calling me Purina and it just kind of stuck with me every since…

I was starting to think the GW2 community was full of cat lovers with all the kitten stuff and was gonna have to leave or something. I agree it should be changed to bunnies or puppies or something other than kitten.

YOU SAID KITTEN – YOU MUST BE STABBED &%%^**% wait i just said it too…

I think I have hit level 80 about 80 more times now. My xp bar keeps filling up and resetting over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over… get my point?

Why not have it where every time your xp bar fills up and completes at level 80 you get a chest or something full of coin or karma or seige equipment or crafting materials or … something?

If not that then allow us to turn xp gain’s off and remove the bar so I dont get all that xp spam on my ui?

What is this KITTEN garbage?

I have never seen it until I started playing this game. Is it some auto-insert mechanism that the forums use when someone uses profanity or is it some kind of teeny bopper forum slang?

Every time I see it I want to stab someone… is that normal?

Losing the guild stuff on transfer does suck, but were barely a month into the game so, meh who cares, we can get it back in another month

We at Retributuion just transfered from Jade Quarry to Devona’s Rest the night before last. We went from impossibly long que times and rarely ever getting to do WvW to almost insta pop’s and at the most a 5 minute wait in the que.

We are looking forward to working with the other guilds on this server to move us all up the rankings list.

In game contacts are Penumbral, Kratan, Meow Mix.
Our website is located here with registered public access for anyone who wishes to communicate with us.

Who is a good person for us to contact during prime time hours for organization?

Away with the repair costs for WvW….. there’s no repair costs in the singles pvp, why is WvW being punished?

Sign and Approve.

Does anyone know where I can find a guide of all the dynamic events? Like thier locations, level ranges, difficulty?

I Am level 20 on my second character and just starting in Kessex Hills and just want to know what my options are since I prefer to just run events. Not fond of hearts, crafting and exploring. I am just trying to map out what DE’s to run as I level.